Foot-rest for registers



(No Model.)

O. M. DEGHANT. FOOT REST FOR REGISTERS.

No. 588,698. Patented Aug. 24,1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

CALVIN M. DEOHANT, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

FOQOT-REST FOR REGISTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 588,693, dated August24, 1897.

7 Application filed December 21, 1896- Serial No. 616,420. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CALVIN M. DEOHANT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Reading, county of Berks, State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain Improvements in Foot-Rests for Registers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to .a foot-rest attachment for side-wall registersfor hot-air heaters; and my object is to provide an improved devicewhich may be readily applied to ordinary forms of registerswithout anychange Whatever in the latter, and which will form a neat inexpensiveattachment adapted to satisfactorily support the feet or anything elsewhich might be suitably placed thereon, and which at the same time maybe readily removed when desired.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation showing my improved foot-rest appliedto a register, the latter being indicated in cross-section in dottedlines. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 show one of thesecuring-hooks in detail.

A represents the perforated front plate of a register.

' B represents the foot-plate, which is provided with heel-pieces b b tocontact with the front face of the register-plate, thus forming abracket. The means which I employ for attaching this bracket to theordinary perforated register-plate without necessitating any change inthe latter are as follows: I provide the bracket Bwith a hinge-bar 0,running lengthwise thereof between the heel-pieces b b, said bar beinglocated a short distance away from the face of the register A when thebracket is in normal position on the latter and also a sufficientdistance away from the inner edge of the foot-plate topermit theintroduction and operation of separatelyformed securing-hooks F F,bymeans of which the bracket is attached to the register-plate. Thesehooks F are preferably formed, as shown most clearly in Figs. 3 and 4,with a hooked head it to engage the hinge-bar c and a hooked end 9,adapted to enter a perforation in the register-plate and engage thelatter, as indicated in Fig. 1. 'To enable these hooks to be readilysecured to the hinge-bar c, I slightly reduce the thickness of thelatter at one or more points d, so that the opening f of the hooked headit may pass over it at such point, but not elsewhere in the length ofthe bar. Having been thus placed upon the latter, they may be freelyadjusted thereon, so as to permit the hooked ends g to readily enter anydesired perforation in the register and engage the latter, so as tosupport the bracket, as indicated in Fig. 1. If desired, the foot-platemay be swung upward against the register when not in use, as indicatedin dotted lines in Fig. 1, it alsobeing provided with perforations, soas not to prevent the admission of the hot air.

The simplicity and economy of my improved device and its readyapplicability to ordinary registers of varying design without involvingany change whatever are important I said bar and adapted to engage theregisteropenings substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CALVIN M. DEGI-IANT. Witnesses:

CAMERON E. STRAUSS, W. G, STEWART.

